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fiveeagles



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver

PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:27 pm    Post subject: 911: Fact or Fiction Reply with quote

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html

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FROM THE MOMENT the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, the world has asked one simple and compelling question: How could it happen?

Three and a half years later, not everyone is convinced we know the truth. Go to Google.com, type in the search phrase "World Trade Center conspiracy" and you'll get links to an estimated 628,000 Web sites. More than 3000 books on 9/11 have been published; many of them reject the official consensus that hijackers associated with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda flew passenger planes into U.S. landmarks.
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We've been over that article a number of times in a number threads here. A lot of us know how this one will play out too.
But carry on if you must.
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fiveeagles



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Location: Vancouver

PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bulsajo wrote:
We've been over that article a number of times in a number threads here. A lot of us know how this one will play out too.
But carry on if you must.


I tried to do a search on it, but the search function sucks.

I just saw the article today and thought I might as well post it.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, fiveeagles, why don't you lower your ball sack and let us know your thoughts... I've seen a couple threads about this already. Got anything new to add?
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fiveeagles



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not really worth it if BS and others have been hashing it out.

If you want to know where I stand. I would have to agree with the stance that popular mechanics takes.
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flip ant



Joined: 01 Jul 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, Popular Mechanics.

Go to Google and type in "JFK assassination conspiracy" and you get links to an estimated 558,000 web sites...and that event took place almost 43 years ago!

Look, for every big event in human history there are conspiracy theories, especially disasters where people die or other negative things happen. It's human nature. Things can never be as they seem even though they most usually are.

People love a good mystery...even if its already been solved.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

flip ant wrote:
Yeah, Popular Mechanics.

Go to Google and type in "JFK assassination conspiracy" and you get links to an estimated 558,000 web sites...and that event took place almost 43 years ago!

Look, for every big event in human history there are conspiracy theories, especially disasters where people die or other negative things happen. It's human nature. Things can never be as they seem even though they most usually are.

People love a good mystery...even if its already been solved.


On the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, they intereviewed Gerald Posner, a lawyer turned author who wrote a book basically upholding the lone gunman theory (HENCE, HE'S A CIA STOOGE). He notes that JFK conspiracy proponents are a generational thing. Like there used to be a lot of Lincoln conspiracy theorists too. But they all died off. There are very few young people taking up the JFK conspiracy theory. 9/11 on the other hand... it's this generation's JFK conspiracy. And frankly these 9/11 people make even the Apollo Hoax people look like solid candidates for a Macarthur grant.
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igotthisguitar



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)

PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fiveeagles wrote:
Bulsajo wrote:
We've been over that article a number of times in a number threads here. A lot of us know how this one will play out too. But carry on if you must.


I tried to do a search on it, but the search function sucks.

I just saw the article today and thought I might as well post it.


Good catch Eagle ...

Since its publication last year, this "article" has won garnered some real notoriety.

Can anyone here remind us, Popular Mechanics is currently owned by who?

This hardly insignificant business aside, the chief editor for that story was none other than current US HOMELAND "SECURITY" Chief. Michael Chertoff's cousin: BENJAMIN Idea

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=popular+mechanics+chertoff+cousin

Amazingly, when pressed on this matter, good ol' cousin Ben seemed to have no idea. Idea

For the record, a reporter on the story called his sweet mother at home. She was more than happy to confirm the special close "kinship" the two Chertoff's share Idea

Hmmmm ... Benjamin Chertoff.

What d'yall think the chances are the next time a reporter presses this esteemed "GATEKEEPER", they'll query as to whether, just as does dear cousin Mike, he too holds dual Israeli / US citizenship? Idea


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jinju



Joined: 22 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

God hates little ****** and you are a real pathetic ****** 5eagles.

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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

igotthisguitar wrote:

This hardly insignificant business aside, the chief editor for that story was none other than current US HOMELAND "SECURITY" Chief. Michael Chertoff's cousin: BENJAMIN Idea


But do you dispute any of the facts?

Great so a guy who is cousin to the Homeland Security Sec manages to convince an editor he has some contacts that will let him write a more effective story.

"Einstein's brother is Satan. So Relativity is crap!" Is that your argument?
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